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War Services of the General Officers.
including the alfuir before Ifmntarabia, 11 July 183G, the [icld actions of the ICkh, 12lh, and
14th March, and of Hcrnani, 10 March 1837. Served as captain in the same battalion until
the Force under Lord John flay was withdrawn in 1840. He has received the Military War
Medal with one Clasp for Guadaloupe, and is a Knight 1st Class of St. Fernando.
20 Lieut. General Crokat served in Sicily in 1807; in Portugal in 1808, under Sir Arthur
Wellesley; in Spain and at Corunna under Sir John Moore; on the Walcheren expedition in
1809; subsequently in the Peninsula. He bad charge of Napoleon at St. Helena when he died,
and he brought home the despatches of his death. Served afterwards in the East Indies. He
has received the War Medal with four Clasps for Vimiera, Corunna, Vittoria, and Pyrenees
(severely wounded).
21 Major General Giant served in Hanover in 1805, under Lord Cathcart.
22 Major General Crawford served in a bomb vessel on the coast of France in 1804 and 5;
in the lines in front of Sobral in Portugal, in 1809; with the army in Sicily in 1811, 12, and 13;
at theeapture of Genoa in 1814; and subsequently in the American war, including the battle
of Bladensburg, capture of Washington, and engagemints before New Orleans, on 1st and 3rd
Jan. 1815.
23 Major General Darby served in Hanover in 1805; at the siege of Copenhagen in 1807;
and the Corunna campaign in 1808-9. Has the War Medal with one Clasp for Corunna.
24 Major General W. H. Slade was present at St. Sebastian in July and August 1813;
blockade of Bayonne and repulse of the sortie. He was one of the oliicers selected to accom¬
pany the boats from Socoa to the mouth of the river Adour, and to assist in laying the bridge
across. He has received the Silver War Medal with one Clasp for St. Sebastian.
25 Major General King served in a mortar-boat in the Faro of Messina for two months
in 1810. Advanced into the United States with Sir George Prevost’s army, and commanded
a battery against Plattsburg.
2G Major General Victor served in the Peninsula from December 1812 to the end of the
war, including the battles of the Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse (War Medal with three Clasps).
27 Major General Dalton served at Walcheren and at the siege of Flushing in 1809.
28 Major General Barry served in the Peninsula from August 1812 to October 1813, and
was severely wounded by a grape shot, 31st August 1813, when leading a party to the breach
at the storming of St. Sebastian. He has received the Silver War Medal with one Clasp.
29 Major Genital Wninyales was present at the attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth on
27th August 1816. Served with the army in France in 1817 and 1818. In February 1839
was commanding officer of Engineers with the Field Force in New Brunswick when the dis¬
puted territory was invaded by the state of Maine. Has the Medal for the battle of Algiers.
30 Major General It. G. B.Wilson served in Holland, Belgium, and France, from December
1813 to January 1816, including the battles of Qualre Bras and Waterloo.
31 Major General Emmett’s services :—sieges of Badajoz in 1811 and 12; passage of
the Nive, battles before Bayonne, Orthes, and Toulouse. Atiaek on the American lines at New
()rl< ans, every affair on that expedition, and the siege of Fort Bowyer. Slightly'wounded at
Bidajozin 1811; again on the advance towards Orthes; and very severely wounded at the
assault of Badajoz in 1812. He has received the Silver War Medal with feur Clasps.
32 Major General Waters served in the Peninsula from April 1812 to September 1814. Was
at Cadiz when the siege was raised in the former year. In 1815 he was present in the actions
of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. He led one of the columns to the assault of Peronne on the
2Gth June 1815, and was at the capture of Paris.
33 Major General Pilcher served with the boats of the British fleet in 1801 in their
occasional attacks on the Spanish gunboats and vessels off Cadiz. In 1803 he served in the
North Sea. In 1804 at the attack on the gun-boats and batteries at Boulogne. On 22nl July
1805 in the general action and defeat of the combined fleets of France and Spain ; and on 16th
Aug. in action with La Topaze French frigate. In Jan. 1806 he landed with the R. M. Bat¬
talion at the attack and capture of the Cape of Good Hope ; in June following with the same
Battalion at the attack and defeat of the Spanish troops on the road to Buenos Ayres, and at
the capture of that city ; also at its defence in August, and after three days’ action was taken
prisoner with the rest of the British. In 1811 he served in the North Sea in several actions
with Danish gun-boats. In 1813-14 off the coast of France and America. Appointed to the
2nd Battalion It. M., and as Adjutant was at the attack of the American Army audits defeat oa
the road to Baltimore : at the attack on the American troops at Farnham Church he commanded
the advance. In 1815 he was at the attack of the American Rifle force near Point a Petie, and
at the capture of that fort in West Florida. From 1819 to 1821 he served at St. Helena—during
the last nine months of Napoleon’s life, and assisted with the Royal Marines at his interment.
34 Major General Thomas Stevens waspresentblockadingBrest, the Helder, and Cadiz, and was
engaged with batteries. In 1809 he was engaged with gun-boats in passing convoys through the
Sound and Categat; in H. M. S. Cerberus, with convoy of armed transports and gun-boats in the
Gulf of Friedland; in the boats of the squadron in the successful attack upon the Russian Flotilla
of heavy armed gun-boats and armed Transports; and at the capture of a Russian schooner.
From 1836 to 1840 he served in the Royal Marine Battalion on the north coast of Spain; was
detached in command of a company for the defence of the Eastern Heights of Passages attacked
by the Carlists, and in the Carlist attack of the Lines on the Gtb June 1836; and be was also pre¬
sent at Fuentarabia, 11th July 1836. Has received the War Medal witn ore Clasp.
35 Major General Donald Campbell served at Walcheren in 1809. Has received the War
Medal with one Clasp.